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Jun 01 2021
News
Major rulings including Obamacare loom for U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court heads into the last month of its current term with several major cases yet to be decided including a Republican bid to invalidate the Obamacare healthcare law, a dispute involving LGBT and religious rights and another focused on voting restrictions.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has 26 cases in total left to decide. There also is speculation
Reuters
Jan 03 2020
News
With A Month To Go Before Iowa And New Hampshire, Anything Can Happen
Democrats all want one thing: to beat Donald Trump.
The problem is, they can't agree on who's best to do that. With a month to go until the Iowa caucuses, there's a clear top-tier of four candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Ind.
And they are all appealing to
NPR (Online News)
Apr 16 2021
News
House Will Vote on Whether to Make Washington D.C. a State Tuesday
The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on whether to make Washington, D.C., a State.
The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), voted the bill, H.R. 51, out of committee by a vote of 25-19 to create D.C. statehood Wednesday.
The ultimate argument seems to be whether the 23rd Amendment guarantees the federal Capitol at least three electors in
Breitbart News
Oct 29 2020
Opinion
The New York Times Owes the Public an Explanation
Yesterday afternoon, the “senior administration official” who wrote a prominent anti-Trump New York Times op-ed and book named himself, ripping off his mask to reveal … a face so forgettable, so forgotten, that it was unclear whether the mask had been ripped off at all, or whether he was like the Robert Stack character in Airplane!, dramatically removing his sunglasses to reveal an identical
The Atlantic
Jul 20 2021
News
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy Makes Picks for Jan. 6 Panel
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) chose five Republican lawmakers to serve on the Democrat-led select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, ahead of the panel’s first hearing later this month.
Mr. McCarthy tapped Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), chair of the Republican Study Committee, a group of the most conservative House Republicans, to serve as the
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 03 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Interest in COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Grows
The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China is gaining traction and media coverage after it was initially dismissed early on in the pandemic. Last week, a report revealed that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in November 2019, reigniting speculation. Shortly after, President
AllSides Staff
Apr 15 2021
News
Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
“President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will withdraw remaining U.S. troops from the ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan… His plan is to pull out all American forces — numbering 2,500 now — by this Sept. 11.” AP News
Both sides are deeply divided over the withdrawal.
Supporters of the withdrawal on both sides argue that the situation cannot be resolved militarily and that Afghanistan is
The Flip Side
Oct 27 2020
Opinion
The Left Doesn’t Fear Amy Coney Barrett, It Fears the Constitution
Nothing threatens the progressive project more than the existence of a Supreme Court that adheres to the Constitution. It’s really that simple.
That’s what the tantrum over Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is all about. The notion that the same Democrats who shelved the judicial filibuster and now threaten to destroy the separation of powers with a Court-packing revenge scheme
David Harsanyi
Mar 17 2021
News
8 dead in Atlanta-area spa shootings, suspect arrested
Federal agents on Wednesday joined the investigations into shootings at three Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead Tuesday evening.
The attacks began around 5 p.m., when four people were killed in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta, authorities said. Less than an hour later, four women were killed in two shootings in Atlanta. The victims in Atlanta appeared to be Asian women,
NBC News (Online)
May 18 2020
Fact Check
Stacey Abrams gets Georgia’s reopening COVID-19 trend upside down. Cases fell
Stacey Abrams has often come up as a potential running mate for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The Georgia Democrat nearly won the 2018 governor’s race. In an interview with Mother Jones, Abrams said if she were in the governor’s mansion today, she would have handled the COVID-19 crisis totally differently.
"I wouldn’t have led Georgia to be one of the last states to shut
PolitiFact